Oct 25, 2018 - Sale 2490

Sale 2490 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
DANIELE BUZZI (1890-1974) SWITZERLAND / THE ST. GOTHARD ELECTRIC RAILWAY. 1924.
40 1/2x26 inches, 103x66 cm.
Condition A-: creases in margins and along vertical and horizontal folds. Framed.
From the 1920s until after World War II, Daniele Buzzi, who lived in Locarno, designed posters to promote his city and the entire Ticino canton. His work is always graphic and colorful, but it is his early posters, like this one, which stand out artistically, as his style became much more straightforward and illustration-like after the 1930s. The impressive, scenic Gotthard Line in Switzerland, which runs from Lucerne to Chiasso and includes the Gotthard Tunnel, was electrified in 1922. This is the English version. Touristik 18 (var), Schweiz p. 192.